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Ada

Ada at HealthtechX 2024

Explore the conversations that Ada experts had at the HealthTechX conference.
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Ada

Shaping the AI conversation

Discover some Ada experts' recent activities and takeaways from conversations with our business, healthcare, and research community peers.
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Dr. Tauseef

Streamlining primary care for patients and empowering clinicians

Technology has the potential to revolutionize primary care, as long as it truly supports patients and clinicians.
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Peter

What does the emergence of Large Language Models like ChatGPT mean for healthcare and AI?

Over the past few months, we’ve been regularly asked what the emergence of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT means for Ada and healthcare more broadly.
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Ada

Building trust in product safety – achieving EU-MDR certification

Classification of Ada Assess as a Class IIa medical device confirms Ada's adherence to healthcare's highest standards.
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Alicia

Tackling influenza with data

With our rich health datasets, we were curious to find out if we could support efforts to monitor the global flu situation.
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Alicia

Tracking mental health trends during the pandemic

To understand the impact of the pandemic on young people’s mental health, we delved into Ada data to look for trends.
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Adel

Scaling care resources for smart care-seekers

The right AI-based symptom assessment and care navigation partner will meet your user needs and your organization's needs – today and tomorrow.
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Shubs

Four ways we’re measuring medical quality

It’s not enough to simply claim digital products are effective and safe in marketing materials. Providers must prove it.
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Dr. Pick

Teaching AI to recognize rare: biliary atresia

Statistically, it’s a rare disease, yet it’s the most common cause of end-stage liver disease and liver transplants in childhood.
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Vanessa

People waiting for the right diagnosis need AI-supported healthcare

Decision-makers in life science companies genuinely care about improving the lives of the people they serve. At Ada, that’s what we care about too.
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Paul

How do we test the performance of AI health assessment tools?

While this study shows how far technology has progressed, it also demonstrates that not all symptom checkers are created equal.
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Adel

The true cost of coverage

The answer is 4 minutes. That’s 4 minutes to listen to the person’s problems, assess their symptoms, and organize next steps.
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Daniel

An update from Daniel

We’re confident our clinically driven AI and medical knowledge leads the industry and we welcome scientific scrutiny.
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Ada

Putting AI to work: How can we overcome barriers to AI adoption in healthcare?

How can we speed up the adoption of AI solutions? Let’s look at some of the challenges we face and how we can overcome them.
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Ada

The People Behind the Products: Dr. Claire Novorol and Ada Health

From the beginning, we’ve been combining global medical knowledge with a unique AI approach to improve health outcomes.
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Ada

What do the new CONSORT and SPIRIT guidelines mean for health AI?

It could signal a watershed moment for the field: acceptance of clinical AI research as part of 'mainstream' clinical research.
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Paul

Design that spans the digital divide: How could online symptom assessment tools reduce the burden on primary care?

Digital symptom assessment tools have the potential to transform the flow of patients and improve their access to proper care.
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Harry

Getting medics back to hospital faster with smooth COVID-19 tests

“In case I need to be tested again, which can happen at any time, it’s a relief to know that I can get my test results this fast.”
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Daniel

Better together: Collaborating with healthcare organizations around the world in the fight against COVID-19

I look forward to a more collaborative future for health and tech, working together to improve access to healthcare.
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Claire

The Challenges Of Combating Rare Diseases – And Five Innovations Making A Real Difference

I’ve seen the difficulties rare disease patients face. I met a child who, despite seeing specialists for a year, had no diagnosis.
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Ada

Progress towards an MVP to globally benchmark AI symptom assessments

Developing a standardized benchmark to measure the effectiveness of AI symptom assessments is a tough nut to crack.
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Claire

Nine experts on the trends that changed healthtech in the last decade, and the innovations to expect by 2030

Dr. Claire Novorol and industry experts reflect on the past decade and predict the next healthcare trends in the 2020s.
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Harry

Helping health systems catch up with innovation

Our #meetAda event focused on what digital health innovators can do to help health systems start taking digital health seriously.
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Ada

How primary care doctors are working with AI

Our clinical experts, Shubs and Adel, discuss how working with AI is affecting their practice as primary care doctors.
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Shubs

Introducing AI4H – a WHO project to help unlock the full potential of AI in health

Benchmarking AI in healthcare is far from simple – particularly for symptom assessments, which is the area we're focused on.
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Claire

Setting the bar high: the challenges of benchmarking digital health

To accurately benchmark and test emerging digital health technologies, external evaluation should be rigorous.
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Claire

Putting the ‘med’ in medtech: three tips for how clinicians can succeed in digital health

The only way to build effective products and services for healthcare is to make clinicians part of the process.
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Claire

Diversity in healthtech: why securing funding is harder for female founders

Rock Health’s analysis found that just one in seven health tech startups that received investment in 2018 had a female CEO.
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Claire

Seven trends that healthtech innovators expect to shape 2019

I asked my healthtech peers what they expect to see over the next 12 months. Here are their predictions for seven trends...
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Claire

It’s time for a better dialogue between regulators and healthtech pioneers

The current regulatory landscape is complex and not set up to respond rapidly to the proliferation of new healthtech products...
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Ada

The stories behind our Global Health Initiative

Statistics are powerful, but such staggering numbers can make it easy to forget they are made up of individual lives.